“Immune Parallels: HIV/AIDS & Long COVID’s Lasting Impact
HIV/AIDS & COVID-19, particularly long COVID, share several significant similarities, especially in terms of viral persistence, T cell damage, immune system dysfunction, & activation of other pathogens. These parallels are important for understanding the long-term effects of both infections and their impact on the immune system…” A thread:
“This is the 5th year of the pandemic in the Let It Rip Kingdom of Sweden. Everyone is constantly reinfected with the immune damaging SARS-CoV-2.
Respiratory virus/bacteria infections like Rhino/Enterovirus, Adenovirus, Mycoplasma pneumoniae or Pertussis are skyrocketing.
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“An important paper!
We keep focusing on Spike protein-only vaccines -> to our peril
It’s the 1 protein w the #1 MOST reasons to mutate!
Many parts of the virus also drive robust immune protection
Tmrws vaccines should focus on non-Spike to reduce variant immune evasion”
“Long COVID, or post-acute COVID syndrome (PACS), is now estimated to occur in 19% of adults having presented with COVID-19.. PACS is believed to be caused by immunological changes that persist after acute infection. Furthermore, it is now increasingly recognized that these changes include not only those in the adaptive immune system, such as production of autoantibodies or autoreactive T cells due to molecular mimicry, but also those in the innate immune system.. A new study by Cheong et al. in Cell reveals crucial differences in the transcriptional and epigenetic state of innate immune cells and their progenitors [among PASC patients].. the study team demonstrated that myeloid cells and hematopoietic progenitor cells harbored transcriptional and chromatin accessibility changes that did not return to baseline even 1 year after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. These data provide powerful evidence that persistent changes (i.e., trained immunity) may underlie PACS..”
“Man given 12 months to live after headaches. It's glioblastoma.
@nypost will never share that CMV is airborne and causes glioblastoma.
90% of us have CMV. COVID dysregulates the immune system. So does CMV when reactivated.
COVID can reactivate CMV.”